10 things you didn't know about Pearl Jam

July 26, 2013 |By LYNSI BURTON

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At a time when MTV actually played music videos, refusing to make them was a gutsy move for a young band. But that's what Pearl Jam did around the time "Vs." was released in 1993. Though the videos for "Even Flow" and "Jeremy" were on heavy rotation at MTV, Pearl Jam decided to downscale their participation in commercialism.

It was a move "Rolling Stone" later ranked as the 12th boldest career move in rock history.

But Pearl Jam didn't stop there. By 1994 they refused to play in Ticketmaster venues in protest of its artificially high prices.

Paul Natkin/Getty

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At a time when MTV actually played music videos, refusing to make them was a gutsy move for a young band. But that's what Pearl Jam did around the time "Vs." was released in 1993. Though the videos for "Even Flow" and "Jeremy" were on heavy rotation at MTV, Pearl Jam decided to downscale their participation in commercialism.

It was a move "Rolling Stone" later ranked as the 12th boldest career move in rock history.

But Pearl Jam didn't stop there. By 1994 they refused to play in Ticketmaster venues in protest of its artificially high prices.